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copied!<p>Assuming that the following are true:</p> <ul> <li><code>valueToCompare</code> is an array <em>of reference types</em> (not, say, an <code>int[]</code> or <code>DateTime[]</code>)</li> <li>The array that <code>valueToCompare</code> is one dimensional (so either declared as a one-dimensional array or a jagged array)</li> </ul> <p>You can cast directly to an <code>object[]</code> instead of <code>Array</code>.</p> <pre><code>bool Compare(object valueToCompare) { Type t = valueToCompare.GetType(); if(t.IsArray() && !t.GetElementType().IsValueType && t.GetRank() == 1) { foreach(var value in (valueToCompare as object[])) return Compare(value); } else { return Compare(valueToCompare); } } </code></pre> <p>If your array is of value types, then you're basically out of luck.</p> <p>If your array is multi-dimensional, then you'll just have to write similar checks to account for as many dimensions as you want to support.</p> <p><strong>NOTE:</strong> As you've written it, this function will just call itself recursively (the <code>else</code> branch calls itself with the same parameters) and eventually result in a <code>StackOverflowException</code>. I don't believe this is what you intended to do, but I have left it as-is since I don't know what you <em>actually</em> wanted to do.</p> <p>Additionally this won't actually compile. I'm not sure what your loop is intended to compare; as it is, it will just compare with the first element of the array, but if the array is empty then it won't return a value (hence the compilation error).</p> <p>What are you <em>trying</em> to do here?</p>

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